"The Verdict" (1982)

Newman received his sixth Oscar nomination for his harrowing performance in this taut Sidney Lumet drama penned by David Mamet. He plays an alcoholic attorney on the skids named Frank Galvin, whose attorney friend (Jack Warden) has given him an easy case  a medical malpractice suit in which a young woman had been left in a vegetative state at a Catholic hospital after a medical oversight. Galvin is expected to settle the case and take one-third of the settlement. But then he goes to see the young woman, and Galvin decides he must try the case not only to make the doctors pay for what they did but also to regain his self-esteem. View the entire list of films in "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection."

Newman received his sixth Oscar nomination for his harrowing performance in this taut Sidney Lumet drama penned by David Mamet. He plays an alcoholic attorney on the skids named Frank Galvin, whose attorney friend (Jack Warden) has given him an easy case  a medical malpractice suit in which a young woman had been left in a vegetative state at a Catholic hospital after a medical oversight. Galvin is expected to settle the case and take one-third of the settlement. But then he goes to see the young woman, and Galvin decides he must try the case not only to make the doctors pay for what they did but also to regain his self-esteem. View the entire list of films in "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection." (Courtesy of Universal Studios)

Newman received his sixth Oscar nomination for his harrowing performance in this taut Sidney Lumet drama penned by David Mamet. He plays an alcoholic attorney on the skids named Frank Galvin, whose attorney friend (Jack Warden) has given him an easy case  a medical malpractice suit in which a young woman had been left in a vegetative state at a Catholic hospital after a medical oversight. Galvin is expected to settle the case and take one-third of the settlement. But then he goes to see the young woman, and Galvin decides he must try the case not only to make the doctors pay for what they did but also to regain his self-esteem. View the entire list of films in "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection."Courtesy of Universal Studios